Thursday, December 06, 2018

We are never going to fix this

Global emissions of carbon dioxide are reaching the
highest levels on record, scientists projected Wednesday, in the latest
evidence of the chasm between international goals for combating climate
change and what countries are doing.

Between
2014 and 2016, emissions remained largely flat, leading to hopes that
the world was beginning to turn a corner. Those hopes appear to have
been dashed. In 2017, global emissions grew 1.6 percent. The rise in
2018 is projected to be 2.7 percent.

A number of other LNG facilities are either
operating or planned in Cameron Parish on the western side of the state,
and along the Texas Gulf Coast.

According to FERC, there are more than 110 LNG facilities now operating in the U.S., though many do not export LNG overseas.

As
of October, there were five approved export facilities under
construction, another five approved but not under construction, and,
including the Plaquemines terminal, 18 that have been proposed and are
awaiting licensing.

The push for new export
terminals has been fueled by the development of hydrofacturing, or
“fracking,” to capture gas from shale deposits deep underground. In
2017, the U.S. exported 1.94 billion cubic feet per day of LNG, up from
only 0.5 billion cubic feet per day in 2016. All of that LNG product was
shipped from Louisiana’s Sabine Pass terminal in Cameron Parish,
according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Can't turn a corner in the middle of a frack boom. And to be clear, what's going on in this instance is the domestic gas market is saturated. So we are building the export infrastructure to keep the boom going. In other words, it's a deliberate choice to do more fracking. Even now.